Mix-Tape Mondays: Playing With Matches
I’m 10% of the way to my fundraising goal of $250. If you’ve enjoyed this feature on my blog, perhaps you’d donate a dollar here? * * * Back in action and ready to go with somethin’...
View ArticleCharacter Study: Don Draper and Walter White
I’ve heard a lot of bellyaching (and accusations) that America has no culture. Sure we do! We’ve got Disney and Pixar, the American Revolution, the Gettysburg Address, McDonalds and Wal-Mart, and...
View ArticleMix-Tape Mondays: Guilty Pleasures
You lucky thing you, just for a surprise this week I have a playlist ready to roll. Two larger-than-life high school hotties uncross their stars in the teen romance Perfect Chemistry, and I’ve set it...
View ArticleMix-Tape Mondays: This Time With More Guitars
I’m sorry I’ve left you waiting so long, but never fear are here! This week I’m bringing you a playlist for an entire series, featuring exactly one more song than I usually include. That’s commitment,...
View ArticleNaNoWriMo 2013: And They’re Off!
It is the second day of National Novel Writer’s Month 2013 and it has finally occurred to me what I should have done in the run-up to November 1st so that I would be ready to write this tale. Obviously...
View ArticleNaNoWriMo: One-Third Gone
Oh dear, Inklings. I am so behind. I came down with a sinus infection back around day four and spent two days in bed (missing classes and a group meeting as well as my word count). It took me until...
View ArticleNaNoWriMo 2013: Two-Thirds Past
Inklings, I’m gonna be straight with you. I caught up after my sinus infection! Eighteen thousand and some-odd words. Then I didn’t write anything for two weeks. Then my super pregnant writing buddy...
View ArticleNaNoWriMo 2013: Eye of the Tiger
I’ve got my clean living room to myself, a playlist a mile long, and I’m full of frozen burritos. Let’s do this. #NaNoWriMo — LesYeuxHiboux (@TryScience) November 25, 2013 Over the weekend I prepared...
View ArticleNaNoWriMo 2013: Goodbye Girl
Dear NaNoWriMo, I am breaking up with you. This isn’t a “he didn’t dump me, I dumped him” situation. I simply feel that we have outgrown each other. I won’t be hitting fifty thousand words in November,...
View Article2013 Literary Year In Review
Just in time for last-minute Christmas book-buying, it’s time again to take a look back at all the books I loved and loathed in 2013 (and I’ve got quite the backlog of reviews.) I did not get to read...
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